Quotes About Courage

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.

He didn't feel that way about anybody. You just live in the place you're in, you don't worry about where you used to be or where you wish you were, here is where you are and here's where you've got to find a way to survive and lying in bed boo-hooing doesn't help much with that.

A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.

Life is a suicide mission.

So that's it? asked the expendable. Final decision, said Ram. And it's the right one. Why do you think so? Because we live or die, we'll learn something important from jumping into the fold. Thousands of future travelers will either follow us or not. But if we don't make the jump, we'll learn nothing, have no new options. A lovely speech. It has been sent back to Earth. It will inspire millions. Shut up, said Ram.

Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the next ones, too. So they'd leave me alone.

Ender knew that at this moment he might be able to walk out of the room and end the battle. The way he had escaped from the battleroom after drawing blood. But the battle would only be fought again. Again and again until the will to fight was finished. The only way to end things completely was to hurt Bonzo enough that his fear was stronger than his hate.

The devil takes his victories," the man replied, "wherever men of God lose heart, and leave the field to him.

Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.

Will people really go?' 'People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

I am a Gordian knot. Don't unravel, just slice.

If you wait until you know everything, you never do anything.

We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.

They're so brave, she said. They're all dead. Only a coward would think of that, she said scornfully.

Tenía miedo, y el miedo le ponía serio.

He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence.

Like climbing a cliff, thinking is a perilous activity for those unused to it.

These children had never looked death in the face and then chosen to live anyway.

my courage is nothing but borrowed courage." "Not borrowed," said Mother. "Stored up. In us. Like a bank. We've seen your courage and we saved some for you when you temporarily ran out and needed some of it back." "Cash flow problem, that's all it was," said Father.

How do men become manly, if not by putting it on as an act until it becomes habit and then, finally, their character?

It was possible, wasn't it, that he loved her, and that in this time of terrifying opportunity he was willing to weaken himself before her in order to win her love.

Too proud to change your name in exchange for a job. Not proud, sir, said Runnel. But Runnel of Farzibeck won't die here to have a waterless coward rise in his place.

People always go. Always. They always believe they can make a better life than in the old world.

Why were they still on that planet? Why weren't they in ships, speeding away? They chose to stay, knowing we had that weapon, knowing what it did and how it worked, they stayed for the battle, they waited for us to come.